Your new PUPPY bases on the Wary core sounds like a great idea. Will be glad to give it a run when it comes out. That is what makes Puppy so great are the differ ways the programmer can build their own release.

Yeah, I tried the compiling route, but couldn't get it done, as I'm no 'programmer' .. But it works well anyway, still using it , no issues so far.. Would like to know if I forgot to update anything though?

Cos I will also update BASH to 4.2, and maybe e2fsprogs plus a few other things, if needed.. I tried a few builds, had to remove some of the wary pets before the new build worked, not entirely sure which one was breaking things, as I removed a few "-w5.pet" files from the list, and then it worked

So if anyone knows of other things that should be updated with the list in my previous post, then let me know!

And about those names, anything but KiltPup - not that this is a good reason but it always annoyed me when I was little that people would assume I was Scottish (and certain nationalities always do) ... When you meet a guy called Dave, would you assume he comes from Daveland, or that the Dutch guy you know is called Holland?? (phew, rant over....)_________________Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search

@sc0ttman
Can you add some add-ons plugins to Webbrowser (Seamonkey or Firefox). Something are deliciuos like FlashGot or DownloadHelper ... to download Youtube files)
TK

It will include a browser installer so you can choose which browser you want to use..
Only elinks (the terminal web browser) is installed by default.

One of the options in the browser installer is "Firedog 3.6" - this is a special version of Firefox 3.6, with more addons, built especially for Puppy Linux. You can search this forum for Firedog for more info.

EDIT: There are Seamonkey addons in the PPM, I may add some to Opera when I update it, and also SM2, if the Wary one works nice.

Also, on a different subject:

In the next Puplite, I will be replacing quite a few busybox applets with the full utilities found in the sysfsutils, gnutils, coreutils, findutils and util-linux packages, following Barrys work on Wary.

EDIT: Barry actually did the opposite, and found busybox lacking compared the to full utils, so I have been careful not to let busybox replace anything not already covered by busybox. I also did indeed replace a few busybox applets with the full utils..

I will also be upgrading anything already installed in Puplite, with the newer versions found in these packages. Something in one of these packages breaks things, and I'll have to find it.

- updated the following scripts to work with latest busybox ('free' applet): /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, rc.shutdown, /sbin/pup_event_fontend_d

The 'free' applet has changed a bit, needed to update some scripts..

EDIT: If anyone knows any other scripts that use the 'free' applet in busybox, then please post it here.. I think I caught them all...

The main SFS has grown by around 4mb so far, but RAM usage is more or less the same.. I will re-apply technosaurus' work on static system daemons, to lower RAM usage even more.

Most of the extra SFS size is down to extra ffmpeg libs and SDL being added.. A little bit is down to some findutils/coreutils programs replaceing some busybox applets, and also cos the new busybox is a bit bigger (but uses more applets and full help for each applet )

NOTE: maybe I want to do without iconv+libiconv, although I am prepared to see the SFS size grow as is required (but no more than that obviously..) ... I might re-compile bash and disable NLS, and remove iconv dependencies - I have hacked it out of deadbeef before.. Might work with bash..

BTW, the main SFS is up to 63mb, from 57mb .. mostly new cos I added ffmpeg codecs, SDL, iconv, more coreutils, gtksourceview (for bacon+nicoedit) plus most updated packages are a bit larger.._________________Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search

after some feedback from vickyg2003, it seems the Simple Network Setup tool (aka SNS) does not support WPA2 ... I will take this into account, and will probably go with the classic network tool as default, not dougals multi-chooser-tool thing..

Or whatever is used in Lupu, if different from Puppy4, cos apparently it works really nicely.

It may also be correct that the ath_pci module in puplite may need to be reverted, as I think I updated it for better Eee PC support.

OK so blame my typical Aussie simplicity (and my Oirish heritage? Not my Scottish bits) in linking your moniker with a certain region of the British Isles, and suggesting names like "Hibernia" and "sc0tti"... my apologies...

Fab to see you continuing, and adding, FireDog to the browser options!

As to Network managers, I've been impressed by Jemimah's 'Frisbee' and occasionally frustrated by SNS - but really I have very little experience with WiFi. What I would love to see is a dialogue to run EduRoam connections. My uni, and most of the bigger universities worldwide are using that system (http://www.eduroam.org/). At present the wpa_supplicant (which one?) has to be manually edited in Puppy http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=455302#455302, but if there was a nooby-proof app to simplify secure connection to EduRoam I think Puppy would prick up more ears in the wider computing community. I know you have too much on your plate, sc0ttman - so how should I plead my case to the WiFi gurus in the Puppy Community?

I cleaned up the look of the the network managers, and added both the old Pwireless and Frisbee to connectwizard_2nd

I used some LupQ and Quicket Wary scripts as a base, to add 18n support..
And I'll look into eduroam..._________________Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File SearchLast edited by sc0ttman on Wed 22 Jun 2011, 18:08; edited 1 time in total

Now that Puplite is very nicely compatible with Wary, and shares many Wary libs and utils...

.. could I add the Wary 5 repo to the Puppy 4 package manager?

I don't see why not.. Not sure exactly what would be required...

1. I would need to add the repo URL, with a checkbox to select it
2. I would need to scan the repo for pet files
3. I would need to get the (new format) pet specs from the pet files
4. I would need to output the pet specs info as needed
5. I would need to re-use/copy the code that lists the pets
6. I would need to handle the listed pets as usual
7. Errrm.. Anything else??

What I would love to see is a dialogue to run EduRoam connections. My uni, and most of the bigger universities worldwide are using that system (http://www.eduroam.org/). At present the wpa_supplicant (which one?) has to be manually edited in Puppy http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=455302#455302, but if there was a nooby-proof app to simplify secure connection to EduRoam I think Puppy would prick up more ears in the wider computing community. I know you have too much on your plate, sc0ttman - so how should I plead my case to the WiFi gurus in the Puppy Community?

Keep up the Good Work

I would post a thread somewhere in the forum, maybe in PET requests, for someone to create a simple GUI for EduRoam, that could easily integrated into the "Internet Connection Wizard"

Maybe emphasise it can be very useful for a large number of students, all over the world!
That seems reason enough to support it, in Linux at least.

I have not been to Uni, so I asked a few mates about EduRoam, and I know their Unis use it, I checked, but they had never heard of it So I'll do my learnings and see what I can come up with..

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